Can you sail your Multihull and still work ? We immediately think of sailing professionals: yacht captains, delivery skippers and hostesses - a subject that we will look into soon. Are you looking for a job under the coconut palms? A hippy Utopia from the 70s that some people have managed to turn into a reality… Today, means of communication and remote working have changed everything. The proof? Well, I’m not making this all up but am in fact on the visitor’s pontoon at St Peter Port in Guernsey. It isn’t France, my home country, and soon it probably won’t be part of the European Union. Yet, I’ve been on the water for 10 days and I have been working as though I was at the office. I have taken orders, responded to clients, and carried out a few tasks. Like dozens of Multihulls World readers that I’ve met over the last few years, I manage to find a balance between professional life and blue water cruising. There are as many solutions as there are personal situations. What about you?
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Setting out without leaving it all behind Throw everything out for an old multihull and just leave everything to chance? No thanks. We won’t always be (in fact it’s long gone) twenty years old. These days, it’s all about trying to turn your dream into reality, not just giving it all up and taking a chance. There will be plenty of voices berating us for leaving the company that we set up, or the well-paid job or the house that you’ve just finished paying off. So, we adapt the old saying to our program: “one hand for me, and one hand for the boat”. Whether it is out of necessity, a f…